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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Amazing to hear from @TurkeyBeaver, @jstyer, and Mark Soltys tonight in Cocoa Village, sharing their stories from SpaceX over the years—from recovering Ship 40 to their human spaceflight program and so much more.
And as if the Florida Starship hype train wasn’t already gathering speed, after hearing what really lies ahead for the Space Coast, it’s full steam ahead.
Bring it on!
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Pad 2 Water Deluge testing again simulating a launch and a catch eight minutes later! @NASASpaceflight
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We have completed breakover operations for the Neutron Stage 2 tank assembly, rotating the stage horizontal – a critical step in the handling of large rocket sections for integration and assembly.
Here’s a last look at Stage 2 on the Neutron Factory floor before it’s wrapped up (literally) for barge shipment to LC-3 on Wallops Island where its fluid systems will be tested and its Archimedes vacuum engine installed.
Oh hey second stage updates at last! I wonder what's the sort of timeline to get that second stage fired up 👀
We have completed breakover operations for the Neutron Stage 2 tank assembly, rotating the stage horizontal – a critical step in the handling of large rocket sections for integration and assembly.
Here’s a last look at Stage 2 on the Neutron Factory floor before it’s wrapped up (literally) for barge shipment to LC-3 on Wallops Island where its fluid systems will be tested and its Archimedes vacuum engine installed.
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Starbase Pad 2 BQDs (Booster Quick Disconnect) purging. Hopefully ahead of Booster 22 arriving soon.
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Last night, the payload fairing with the 40 Amazon Leo satellite for the Leo Vulcan 01 mission was rolled to SLC-41 for stacking atop the Vulcan rocket! This is a good sign final preparations are progressing for launch in the coming weeks.
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Amazing shot of the Iberian Peninsula taken by the crew of Expedition 75 on the International Space Station back on October 14th. Quite the clear skies that day... I can kinda see where I live from there 🙂
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
We’re 3 for 3 in orbit this October. This time, it’s space drugs. W-7 carries pharmaceutical hardware and a promising new type of cancer medicine known as a protein degrader. Microgravity will help overcome one of its biggest limitations: poor solubility.
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Beautiful skies for a launch this morning as Bandwagon 5 makes it's way into the stars.
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
It might not have been as vibrant as last week's, but the jellyfish were out again today!
SpaceX launching a Falcon 9 on the Bandwagon 5 mission, a rare (these days) southeastern launch. Being southeast of the launch made for a great side-on view right around sunrise.
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Another epic sunrise at Starbase.
"Just add vehicles"
Could be Ship 43 (Flight 16) first, for potential chopstick tests, then Booster 22 (Flight 15), and finally Ship 42, joining forces for a November launch.
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Earlier this month, NASA's Kennedy Space Center posted the Draft PEA for SpaceX's expansion of its Roberts Road campus for Starship. This would expand the site from 167 acres to nearly 400 acres, more than doubling the existing footprint at the site.
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At one point SpaceX looked at the new test stand area to be located to the east but that area has now been allocated to a new user on the space coast, so we'll have to see who that was because that's gonna be even more rocket testing to expect at KSC.
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Jellyfish time!
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